On-vehicle image and sound capturing and recording apparatus, on-vehicle image and sound capturing control method, and program for on-vehicle image and sound capturing and recording based on abnormality detection

An on-vehicle image capturing control method comprising:

• acquiring an image and a sound of the surroundings of a vehicle and acquiring an electronic device sound output from an electronic device;
• performing cancellation processing on the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle for reducing the electronic device sound included in the sound of the surroundings of the vehicle;
• associating only one type of sound, that is the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle with the image of the surroundings of the vehicle and recording the associated data in a recording medium when an abnormality of the vehicle is not detected;
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• recording two types of sounds, that are a cancel sound obtained by performing the cancellation processing and the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle along with the acquired image of the surroundings of the vehicle in the recording medium when the abnormality of the vehicle is detected,
• wherein the number of types of sounds to be recorded is based on whether or not the abnormality is detected.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium that stores a program for causing a computer to execute processing steps for performing on-vehicle image capturing and recording, the processing steps comprising:

• acquiring an image and a sound of the surroundings of a vehicle and acquiring an electronic device sound output from an electronic device;
• performing cancellation processing on the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle for reducing the electronic device sound included in the sound of the surroundings of the vehicle based on the characteristics of the acquired electronic device sound;
• associating only one type of sound, that is the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle with the acquired image of the surroundings of the vehicle and recording the associated data in a recording medium when an abnormality of the vehicle is not detected;
• and
• recording two types of sounds, that are a cancel sound obtained by performing the cancellation processing and the acquired sound of the surroundings of the vehicle along with the acquired image of the surroundings of the vehicle in the recording medium when the abnormality of the vehicle is detected,
• wherein the number of types of sounds to be recorded is based on whether or not the abnormality is detected.